StColette Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 [b][color=red]Attention !!![/color][/b] :cheer: The New Reference Section Opens Soon :cheer: According to my resources (Hugheyforlife) the brand New Reference Section will make it's first appearance later this evening. The New Reference Section makes it easier to anyone to find information on a topic that they might be wondering about. The Awesome New Reference Section has an incredible search feature that will make tracking down a specific topic a whole lot easier for everyone. Categories in the New Ref. Section include: The Bible Church Authority. Apostolic Succession Mary Salvation, Justification, Predestination Sacraments, Sacramentals History of the Church Faith and Science Prayer, Devotion, Spirituality Defending the Faith Online (Tracts by Phatmassers) Sacred Tradition Peter, the Papacy Communion of Saints Death, Judgment, Afterlife Morality, Ethics, Truth Early Church Fathers Theology of the Body Other Religions, Opposing Views Tools for Apologetics Believe me when I say if you can't find it in the Reference Section then it doesn't exist. With way over 6,000 sites and topics the New Reference Section will hold the answers to any questions that you might have. Did yall also know that the Reference Section includes audio files on many different topics. Seriously people how much better can this thing get? The New Ref Section also gives you a chance to rate the different topics that are listed within it. So if you like a certain bit of info that you read be sure and rate it so others won't just look over and not realize that it's really something interesting and helpful to read. The Ref Section also includes a Newest Link section. So if you happen to think you've read through every single site in one of the sections then be sure and keep a look out in the Newest Link section, you never know when new stuff will be added and if you don't check you could miss out. The New Reference Section creative team has worked very hard in order to bring this to Phatmass. So let's show 'em that we appreciate what they do by using the New Reference Section. Many thanks to the New Reference Section creative team And Special thanks to Dust for allowing us to have this awesome new feature. Also Special thanks to Nick (Phatcatholic) for being crazy and sweet enough to put the reference section together and to maintain it for all of Phatmass. God Bless, Jennie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ave Maria Totus Tuus Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franciscanheart Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 631 categories with 6286 links to be a little bit more specific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel's angel Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidei Defensor Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 YESSSSSSSSSSS! Thank you all you guys and gals for all your hard work! I cant wait! This will be awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatcatholic Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 a couple more things that make the new ref. section better than the old --you will now be able to add your own links to the reference section. once you submit a link, it will go to the admins for approval. if its all good, it goes in --you will also be able to report a link. if a link is broken, or if it goes to the wrong page, you can report it, and a notice will be sent to the admins. --you can now link to subsections w/in an entry. for example, before, if you wanted someone to see the link about mary's assumption, you couldn't just link to the assumption section, you had to link to the entire mary entry. now you can link to each subsection. --it already contains MUCH more links than the old. while i was transferring links to the new system, i also added many new ones. --links are better organized, titles for subsections more accurately portray the links they contain, doubles have generally been deleted, some links that were in the wrong place have been re-located, all broken links have been fixed (as far as i know), old links have been updated --entries are cross-referenced. for example, in the section on judaism, under non-christian religions, there's a note to also see the section on the church and the holocaust, under the history of the church entry. --there's a popular links section, where you can see the links that people are utilizing the most. --its independent of the forum. so, if the forum crashes, you can still access the reference section. --new directory gives a constant count of the # of links and categories. all in all, its pretty sweet. three people--hugheyforlife, Cure of Ars, and myself--have been working on it every day for a good month and a half. of course, i spent months before hand just getting the old reference section ready for the transfer to the new system (making sure the format for punctuation and spelling and wording of the titles is uniform and that the broken links are fixed). it is all very tedious work. just imagine submitting over 6,100 links one.........at...........a..............time. i guarantee you i spend more hours on this than i do at my real job. i hope you like it pax christi, phatcatholic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel's angel Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 thank you Phatcatholic, hugheyforlife and Cur of Ars for all your hard work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fides_et_Ratio Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 YAY! you all rock. totally. I love everyone who worked on the reference section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatcatholic Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 a note on the search feature. if you do the basic search you'll come up pretty empty. that's b/c the vast majority of the links have no key words or underlying descriptors that the basic search looks for. so, you have to use the advanced search and search for words that would appear in the title of an article. we may fix this in the future, but i'm not too worried about it right now. i think its pretty easy to find what you are looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatcatholic Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 (edited) also notice that every entry has subsections on scripture references, ECF testimony, catechism references, and audio downloads. the audio in particular is an untapped resource. one could very well make several apologetics cd's from the audio we have compiled for each entry. we have audio from some of the most popular catholic apologists.................and its all free. when the new reference section debuts, make sure you check that out (unless you were clever enough to find the new reference section yourself, in which case, ENJOY! ) Edited July 19, 2005 by phatcatholic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franciscanheart Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 phatty over there is the one to thank. without his hard work and obsessive compulsions we would not have this resource. cure and i helped enter some links, its true, but phatty is the one to thank. so [b]thank you[/b] again phat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 [url="http://www.phatmass.com/directory/"]http://www.phatmass.com/directory/[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old_Joe Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Most excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old_Joe Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Whenever I try to open the "Online Text and Documents" under Resources, it asks me if I want to save it as a file. I can access it from the homepage, or if I save it, I can access it from there is well. I don't have this problem with any of the other resource links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 [quote name='Old_Joe' date='Jul 19 2005, 12:28 AM']Whenever I try to open the "Online Text and Documents" under Resources, it asks me if I want to save it as a file. I can access it from the homepage, or if I save it, I can access it from there is well. I don't have this problem with any of the other resource links. [right][snapback]649292[/snapback][/right][/quote] Thx. Fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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